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“After all the lies he’s told aboutI killed your parents? We both know that isn’t true, darling”

“You’re lying,” Nick says, his voice a matter of fact and filled with confidence as he takes another step forward

“Oh, you’re a mind reader as well as Santa, eh?”

“I’vedishonest withlied You killed my woman’s parents and now you’ve laid hands on her brother Let hiain”

Terrence looks between ed s this… thing, are you?”

Nick surges forward, stopping bare inches from Kenny and Terrence Behind Terrence, hisbehind their backs

“You will not insult ain,” he snarls, with soaround me

Insanely – considering the circu the rest of me not to worry, never to worry because er at bay

“Or what?”

“Or I’ll beat you to a pulp in front of your buddies,” Nick snarls “And I’llme to stop”

“I’d love to see that” Terrence chuckles “Fuck, I’d pay to see that”

Nick feints as though he’s going to hit Terrence

Terrence reacts on instinct, lunging out with a vicious punch that catches Nick on the side of the head

My whole world spins as fear stabs through me

I think I let out a screah broken glass But I can’t be sure Everythinganized elves rushing around the North Pole on Christmas Eve

I dart forward as Terrence lets Kenny go, ain

It’s the only thing I can think to do, the only way I canhim away from the scene, and then turn to find Nick with Terrence’s fist in his giant paw

He squeezes the biker’s fist, his whole body bulging in the Santa get-up,

Terrence gasps and shakes his head violently when histo break my hand”

“You’re an idiot, Terrence, a godda like Santa